"Civilizing" the Cherokees

Cherokee Practices

100

what percent of the Cherokee's joined Christian Churches

10% (32)

200

What were the traditional Cherokee gender rolls for men and women 

Woman farmed, Men hunted (35)

300

What were the Cherokee's rules in terms of owning land?

"The one thing that they did not buy was land, because the Cherokees continued to own their land in common. Each Cherokee could clear and cultivate as much land as he or she wished as long as that use did not infinge of the rights of others."(35)

400

Why did the Cherokee Planters want to preserve their practice of common land?

"Cherokee planters recognized that the practice of holding land in common freed capital for investment elsewhere. " (36)

Cherokee government

100

Did the Cherokee's "Articles of Government" prevent additional land cessions?

No (39)

200

At least one of the reasons that the Cherokees strengthened their government

- "in an effort to avoid land cessions" (39)

- "in order to prevent young warriors from faiding the frontier and provoking retribution on innocent Cherokees" (36)

300

What was the Cherokee's "National Committee" and what did they do?

"The Council established a National Committee of thirteen members to manage the Nation's affairs and to report to the annual meeting of the National Council." (38).

400

Why is it significant that the Cherokee's government intentions were very similar to the United States Constitution? 

"the Cherokees had not dissolved their separate political existence and melded into the United States population ... They had preserved both their national identity and their homeland." (41)

Vocab

100

Retribution

Punishment

200

Unprecedented

Never done or known before

300

Ostentatious

Showy/pretentious

400

Obviate 

Remove/get rid of

True or False

100

The Cherokee's refused to sell Georgia's legislation their land. 

True:

"the desire to acquire the nearly five million acres the Cherokee Nation held and refused to sell." (70)

200

Many Americans were unhappy and unimpressed by the Cherokee's news paper "The Phoenix"

False: 

"Most Americans found it remarkable, some even unbelievable that and Indian tribe produced a newspaper." (75)

300

Most Cherokee men were open to farming, which was untraditional 

False: 

"Most men flatly refused to engage in farming" (35)

400

If a Cherokee were to leave the Cherokee Nation, they would lose their privilege to use the common property.

True: 

"People who moved out of the Nation lost and claim to common property" (39)